Series III: Outside Programming, 1979-1989, inclusive
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Series III: Outside Programming (dated 1977-1989) contains records documenting the Humanities Council's efforts to promote interdisciplinary humanities studies among working professionals, other post-secondary educational institutions, and high schools. The documents in this series, particularly those related to the Summer Institute, show programming focused on the bicentennials of the U.S. Constitution and the French Revolution, which were topics of other Council programming created for an audience of working humanists and university students. The Council also worked with the New York Council on Humanities (NYCH) on programming targeted to working humanists, including conferences and lectures.
Arrangement
This series has been arranged into three subseries. Files are arranged chronologically within subseries. The subseries arrangement of the records is as follows:
Subseries III.A NYU and Rockefeller University Joint Program in the Humanities, 1979-1989
Subseries III.B New York Council on Humanities, 1979-1992
Subseries III.C High School Humanities Education, 1983-1989
Historical Note
Shortly after its inception, the Humanities Council sought to partner with other institutions in the New York City metro area to support the humanities and humanities education beyond New York University. From 1979-1989, the Council participated in a joint humanities program with Rockefeller University (RU), wherein humanists from NYU led interdisciplinary humanities programming on the RU campus, and scientists from RU gave lectures for the NYU community. Rockefeller University specializes in scientific and medical education, and the Rockefeller/NYU Joint Program in the Humanities fit into the Council's broader aims to integrate humanities instruction into science, health, and professional programs. The Council also engaged with high school humanities instruction through two programs: the Rockefeller Foundation-funded High School Humanities Project, which ran from 1983 to 1988, and the Summer Institute, which was funded by the National Endowment for Humanities and ran from 1985 to 1989. The Council also liaised with the New York Council on the Humanities (NYCH) to plan conferences and lectures and to organize NYCH board meetings.
Subseries III.A: NYU and Rockefeller University Joint Program in the Humanities, 1979-1989, inclusive
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Subseries III.A New York University and Rockefeller University Joint Program in the Humanities (dated 1979-1989) documents the collaboration between NYU's Humanities Council and the administration of RU to foster interdisciplinary education for students in the humanities and sciences. The program is documented by Rockefeller/NYU Committee records, planning files, correspondence with potential participants, and publicity and marketing materials. This subseries also includes the National Endowment for the Humanities grant proposal and reports. Correspondence with participants, invitations, invitation lists, posters, and audio recordings document "Humanities at Rockefeller" programming, while "Scientists Speak About Science" is documented by planning files including event schedules, location bookings, and audio recordings.
Planning Files, 1979-1982, inclusive
Rockefeller/NYU Committee, 1980-1989, inclusive
Paper Records, 1980-1985, inclusive
Electronic Records, 1983-1989, inclusive
Digital materials
Potential Speakers, 1982-1983, inclusive
Paper Records, 1982-1983, inclusive
Electronic Records, 1982-1983, inclusive
Digital materials
Publicity, 1980-1989, inclusive
Brochures, 1980-1992, inclusive
Paper Records, 1980-1992, inclusive
Electronic Records, 1983-1984, inclusive
Digital materials
National Endowment for the Humanities Proposal, 1980-1981, inclusive
Humanities Programming at Rockefeller University, 1980-1987, inclusive
Inaugural Humanities Lecture: Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1980
Paper Records, 1980
Poster, 1980
Aileen Ward--"The Nature of Biographical Evidence", 1980
Josephine Hendin--"Violence in Recent American Fiction", 1980
Robert B. McKay--"Ethics and Jurisprudence", 1980
Graham Hughes--"Modern Jurisprudence", 1980
Denis Donoghue--"Aspects of Modern Literature", 1981
A. Richard Turner--"Saint Francis and the Centaurs: Two Renaissance Landscapes in New York Collections", October 7, 1981
William K. Everson--"Developments in the History of Cinema", 1981
Paper Records, 1981
Audio Recording, December 1, 1981
Edward Roesner--"The Restoration of Early Music", 1981
Horst W. Janson--"The Image of the Human Soul in Art", 1981
Donald Posner--"Erotic Imagery in Eighteenth-Century Art", 1981
Carl Schorske--"Freud: The Psycho-archaeology of Cities", 1981
Peter H. von Blankenhagen--"Process and Chance in Greek Art", 1981
Concert Series, 1981
David King at Rockefeller University, February 3, 1982
Robert Rosenblum--"Picasso One Hundred Years Later", 1981
Paper Records, 1981
Poster, 1981
Audio Recording, October 27, 1981
McGeorge Bundy--"Scientists, Decision-Makers, and H-Bombs: A Cautionary Tale, 1949-1982", 1982
Paper Records, 1982
Posters, 1982
Audio Recording, March 8, 1982
Louis Auchincloss--"A Novelist's Use of His Background and Environment", 1982
Paper Records, 1982
Audio Recording, May 19, 1982
Seminars in Humanities Posters, 1982-1983, inclusive
Sakhorov Symposium, 1981
Jess Bessinger at Rockefeller University, November 3, 1982
Ved Mehta--"Chachaji and the Writing of Literature", 1982
Paper Records, 1982
Audio Recording, December 16, 1982
An Evening with Louis Malle, 1983
Paper Records, 1983
Audio Recording, March 3, 1983
Jonathan Brown--"El Greco", May 1983
Seminars in Humanities Promotional Materials, 1983-1984, inclusive
Joseph Kerman--"Modern Views of Eighteenth-Century Music", 1983
Paper Records, 1983
Electronic Records, 1983
Digital materials
Poster, 1983
Audio Recording, October 21, 1983
Eliot Friedson--"The Future of the Professions in the United States", November 2, 1983
Brooks McNamara--"Medical Quackery on Stage: The History of the American Medicine Show", 1984
Audio Recording, February 2, 1984
Electronic Records, 1984
Digital materials
Alfred Kazin--"The New York Writer and his Landscape", 1983-1984, inclusive
Paper Records, 1983-1984, inclusive
Electronic Records, 1983-1984, inclusive
Digital materials
Posters, 1983-1984, inclusive
Nicholas Wahl--"Socialism in France", March 7, 1984
Lawrence Sager Lecture, May 2, 1984
John E. Sexton--"Developments in Religion and the Law", October 3, 1984
Thomas Bender--"The City and Intellectual Life", October 5, 1983
Kirk Varnedoe--"'Primitivism' and Modern Art", 1984
Paper Records, 1984
Poster, 1984
Jacob T. Schwartz--"Artificial Intelligence: Possibility and Impact", October 11, 1984
Marilynn Gelfman Karp--"The Civilizing and Resurrection of Objects or the Chemistry of Collecting", November 7, 1984
Wassily Leontif--"The Technical Change and Its Economic and Social Implications", December 5, 1984
Bernard Malamud--"The Long Writing Road", March 14, 1985
Jacob T. Schwartz--"Developing Common Interest Between Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence", October 2, 1985
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Audio -- 2 of 2
Guy Walton--"Versailles", November 4, 1985
Reyner Banham--"The Rhetoric of High Tech: European Developments in Style and Substance", 1985
Paper Records, 1985
Audio Recordings, December 12, 1985
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Audio -- 2 of 2
Deitrich von Bothmer--"Experiences of a Curator", February 5, 1986
Rochelle Dreyfuss and David Leebron--"Employee Privacy in the Technological Age", March 3, 1986
Frances Kamm--"Contemporary Ethical Thinking", April 2, 1986
James W. Tuttleton--"City Literature: States of Mind", April 4, 1984
Dr. Arthur Balin--"Thoughts on the Biological Mechanisms of Aging", April 10, 1986
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Audio -- 2 of 2
Richard Sennett--"The Discovery of Narrative in the Social Sciences", May 5, 1986
Philip Habib--"Myths and Reality in Foreign Affairs", May 19, 1986
Cerami Lecture, December 11, 1986
Eisler--"Leonardo and Anatomy", February 4, 1987
Ralph Steinmen Seminar, February 12, 1987
Movshon Lecture, March 3, 1987
Finkel Seminar, March 12, 1987
Heyns Seminar, April 5, 1987
Emil Gotschlich Seminar, April 9, 1987
Scientists Talk About Science at NYU, 1981-1985, inclusive
Planning Files, 1981-1985, inclusive
Abraham Pais on Einstein, February 11, 1982
Heinz Pagels--"Cosmology", December 9, 1982
Fernando Nottebohm--"Permanence and Change in the Adult Brain", December 8, 1983
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Audio -- 2 of 2
Purnell W. Choppin. How Does a Virus Cause Disease?", February 9, 1984
Charles S. Peskin--"How Computers Can be Used to Design Prosthetic Heart Valves", April 12, 1984
Nicola R. Khuri--"Unification in Physics: Maupertuis and Hamilton", November 8, 1984
Rodney W. Nichols--"Science and Technology in the Third World", December 13, 1984
Norton D. Zinder--"Genes, Scientists, and Others", February 14, 1985
James E. Darnell--"Cell Evolution: How Did It Happen?", April 11, 1985
Audio -- 1 of 2
Audio -- 2 of 2
Rifkin Lecture, October 10, 1985
Allan R. Goldberg, November 14, 1985
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Audio -- 2 of 2
Floyd Ratliff--"Illusions in Minds and Machines", February 13, 1986
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Audio -- 2 of 2
E. D. G. Cohen--"The Quest for the Absolute Zero of Temperature", March 13, 1986
Report on Joint Program in the Humanities, 1981-1982, inclusive
Correspondence, 1983
Digital materials
Rockefeller Seminars in Humanities Planning Files, 1984-1986, inclusive
Subseries III.B: New York Council on Humanities, 1979-1992, inclusive
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Subseries III.B New York Council on Humanities (dated 1979-1992) includes materials documenting the Humanities Council's relationships with the New York Council on Humanities (NYCH). This subseries includes paper and electronic planning files for two conferences, one lecture series in collaboration, and planning files for an NYCH board meeting at NYU.
Work and Worklessness in New York State Conference, 1979
NYCH Lecture Series, 1981-1989, inclusive
NYCH Board Meeting at NYU, 1983
Paper Records, 1983
Electronic Records, 1983
Digital materials
The Anatomy of Hate: Saving Our Children Conference, 1992
Paper Records, 1992
Electronic Records, 1992
Digital materials
Subseries III.C: High School Humanities Education, 1983-1989, inclusive
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Subseries III.C High School Humanities Education (dated 1983-1989) includes documents related to the Humanities Council's High School Humanities Project and the Summer Institute. The High School Humanities Project is represented by research files on high school education, correspondence with local high school administrators in New York City, and the Rockefeller Foundation grant reports and re-application. This subseries also includes paper and electronic budget files. Student newspapers and oral history projects from Seward High School provide examples of schools' High School Humanities Project activities. Most of the materials related to the Summer Institute are related to the "Age of Democratic Revolution" sessions. These include an National Endowment for the Humanities grant proposal for that specific project, semi-annual reports, and expense reports. There are also calls for proposals from the Council, curricular materials, posters, and planning files particular to the American Constitution Bicentennial and French Revolution Bicentennial sessions. This subseries also includes issues of the Summer Institute's "COLLABORATIVE" newsletter and a proposal for a session focused on Shakespeare.
Historical Note
The Humanities Council was involved in two significant projects that focused on improving high school humanities education standards. The first was the High School Humanities Project, which ran from 1983 to 1988 and was funded with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. For this project, the Council facilitated resource sharing between New York City public high schools and activities such as student-led oral histories. In 1985, the Council began the Summer Institute, a series of seminars on NYU's campus for high school teachers during summer break. In 1987 and 1988, the Summer Institute sessions were built around the theme of "The Age of Democratic Revolution," with the 1987 session covering the bicentennial of the ratification of the United States Constitution and the 1988 session devoted to the bicentennial of the French Revolution. The National Endowment for the Humanities funded the "Age of Democratic Revolution" Summer Institute sessions.
Conditions Governing Access
Files related to student oral history projects, located in box 68, are restricted until 2063 to protect the privacy of interviewees.
High School Humanities Project, 1983-1988, inclusive
Rockefeller Foundation Background Reports on Humanities Education, 1983
Seward High School Newspaper, 1983-1986, inclusive
High School Humanities Project Budget and Expenses, 1983-1986, inclusive
Electronic Records, 1983-1984, inclusive
Digital materials
Paper Records, 1985-1986, inclusive
High School Resource Sharing, 1983-1986, inclusive
Rockefeller Foundation Grant Report, 1984
Rockefeller Foundation Grant Re-application, 1985
High School Humanities Research File, 1984-1988, inclusive
NYC Public Schools Research File, 1986-1988, inclusive
RESTRICTED -- Oral Histories by High School Students, 1987-1988, inclusive
Conditions Governing Access
This file is restricted for 75 years after the date it was created. It will be open for research in 2063.